The wife of Matt Gaetz, Ginger Luckey, has stood by his side during his rise as a key Republican figure – but did you know her brother is a VR tech billionaire?
Gaetz openly condemned sending further financial support to Ukraine on Tuesday (January 25, 2023), with Fox News calling him “unmoved” by President Vladimir Zelensky’s firing of top officials to crack down on corruption.
“There is no amount of ‘purges’ that will suddenly make me support giving money to Ukraine,” Gaetz explained. “We don’t even give money to American agencies without oversight, so why would we do the same with Ukraine?”
While the outspoken Florida representative isn’t short of critics, his wife Ginger Luckey has been his number-one supporter since they started dating in 2020. Fast forward to 2023 and the pair have been happily married for nearly 18 months.
Gaetz may be a success in politics but his brother-in-law is outranking him in his own field – technology.
Ginger Luckey’s brother Palmer is founder of Oculus VR
If the surname Luckey sounds familiar, you may have heard it from Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR and its discontinued Oculus Rift, which has been credited for the revival of virtual reality.
Aged just 16, he was constructing VR headsets and grew the company via Kickstarter funding, which raised $2.4 million.
Dropping out of California State University worked out pretty well for Palmer because, in 2014, Oculus VR was acquired by Facebook for $2 billion in cash and stock, as per Forbes.
Now 30 years old, he has a net worth of $1.4 billion and ranks number 22 on Forbes’ America’s Richest Entrepreneurs under 40 list.
Like his sister, Palmer is a Trump supporter and has been a prominent fundraiser for the Republican party. He hosted a fundraiser for the former president at his California home. Tickets reportedly ranged from $2,800 per person to $100,000.
Meet Matt Gaetz’ wife, Ginger
Reportedly born on August 26, HITC estimates she is about 27 years old as she graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2016 with a degree in economics and accounting.
After university, she worked at Apeel Sciences, a biotechnology research company, for more than five years. Ginger was a financial analyst before becoming a sales operations and enablement analyst.
She has worked as a senior associate of sales transformation at KPMG US – a US audit, tax and advisory firm – since October 2021.
In a Daily Mail interview, Ginger revealed she met Matt at Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago club in March 2020. At the time, she wasn’t enthusiastic about attending the event as her mother “dragged her” there, but everything changed when she encountered her future husband.
By December of the same year, the couple returned to Mar-A-Lago where the politician, 40, popped the question.
They tied the knot in August 2021.
